5/27/2023 0 Comments Brother by David ChariandyThe chemistry between Blake, Pierre, and Johnson was excellent. "Brother" was a hard movie to watch because of its ring of truth and many dark scenes. "Brother" is the story of family love persisting through trauma, shattered dreams of a hopeful Jamaican musician, and territorial conflicts between gangs of similar backgrounds, with a final glimmer of resolution at the end. We see the bleakness of many Caribbean immigrant lives, the aura of violence that is never far away, and the problematic relationship with a lily-white 1991 Scarborough police force. The story jumps back and forth between 1981, 1991, when a tragic event occurs, and 2001 when Michael is trying to hold things together. In high school, Michael is attracted to Aisha (Delia Lisette Chambers/Kiana Madeira), a Canadian-Jamaican neighbor whose father came from the same area of Jamaica as Ruth. Michael is smaller, darker, less self-confident, and more studious in school. By his late teens, Francis is a large, physically intimidating man who acts with confidence but has some questionable friends. Francis is older than Michael by a couple of years and is protective of his family in the father's absence. She has two sons-Francis (Jacob Williams/Aaron Pierre) and Michael (David Odion/Sabastian Nigel Singh/Lamar Johnson). Ruth (Marsha Stephanie Blake) is a Jamaican immigrant to Toronto, Canada. It follows a Canadian-Jamaican family in Scarborough, Ontario, over 20 years from 1981 to 2001.
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5/27/2023 0 Comments Cassoulet by Kate HillEven considering the time required to remove the plastic covering and the tough outside skin from the ham, it doesn't take more than 30 minutes to prepare from start to finish. "In my version, I use ham, canned cannellini beans, and Italian and bratwurst sausages and serve the stew on a large platter, home style. Assembled in a cast-iron or earthenware casserole, it is usually covered with bread crumbs and takes hours-sometimes days-to prepare." If there is fog in November, there is Christmas in December. "The famous cassoulet of southwest France features white beans, roast pork, sausage, and duck or goose. November Fog, Cassoulet, and Leftovers - by Kate Hill November Fog, Cassoulet, and Leftovers Elevens and Eperlans Kate Hill 6 1 S' il y a du brouillard en Novembre, il y a Noel en Dcembre. Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way: Episode 102: Hurray! Cassoulet Printer-Friendly Recipe 5/27/2023 0 Comments This Is How by Augusten BurroughsHis books are published in over 25 countries and his writing has appeared in magazines, literary journals, and newspapers around the world such as The New York Times, Out, and House and Garden. He has since achieved fame as one of today’s most celebrated modern writers. Burroughs’s other popular titles include “A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father” “You Better Not Cry”, a collection of holiday stories and his latest, “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude, and More”.Īfter surviving his tumultuous childhood and dropping out of high school, Burroughs obtained his GED and became successful in advertising. Since publishing his first novel – “Sellevision”, the fictional story of the warped lives of four home-shopping network employees – Burroughs has published several other works, among them the notable “Dry”, which details his struggle with and eventual recovery from alcoholism. Dry has since become a contemporary staple of recovery literature. Acclaimed author Augusten Burroughs had a very unusual childhood, one that America came to know through his acclaimed memoir “Running with Scissors” (2002), which spent more than four years on The New York Times Best-Seller List spawned an Oscar-nominated film starring Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, and Gwyneth Paltrow and earned him literary stardom. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Windblown by Fern F. MusselwhiteReducing the depth and volume of ablation can also mitigate these problems and should contribute to the reduction of the uncertainty ceiling. Current mitigation methods include correcting for LIEF mathematically, using matrix-matched reference materials, annealing material to reduce or eliminate radiation damage effects and tuning for robust plasma conditions. Sources include differential downhole fractionation (LIEF), `matrix effects' and ablation volume differences, which result in irreproducibility of the same reference material across sessions. Sources of systematic uncertainty associated with session-to-session bias are the dominant contributor to the 2% (2s) uncertainty ceiling that currently limits the accuracy of LA- ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology. Breaking through the uncertainty ceiling in LA- ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology In a feudal economy, the lord tells people what to grow and how to sell it. The straightforward way is for a central authority to decide what to do. How are scarce resources allocated across an economy? The decisions around how to allocate these scarce resources to produce the best output is the central question of economics.Įconomics is not about making moral judgments about what choices are morally better than others, just as mathematics doesn't explain love. There has never been enough resources to satisfy everyone completely - tradeoffs must be made on an individual and societal level. What is economics? Economics is the study of the use of scarce resources that have alternative uses, and how to allocate these resources to maximize output. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Basic Economics Ann Brashares is an American writer best known as the author of the wildly popular Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.The first book in this internationally bestselling series was published in 2001 and quickly garnered critical acclaim, being praised for its relatable characters and strong themes of friendship. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a young adult novel series written by Ann Brashares. What is sisterhood of the traveling pants book author? Lessons We Can Learn from The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants Book Author’s Success Story. Behind the Scenes: Inspiration and Creative Process of The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants Book Series.Top 5 Facts You Didn’t Know About The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants Book Author.Frequently Asked Questions About The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants Book Author. As they grew up through school, their pranks got meaner and their hatred for each other grew stronger. Doing anything and everything they could to prank, anger and get the other one in trouble. Rory and Connor first met in preschool and they were each other’s nemesis from day one. But the second half of the book more than makes up for it, transforming the hero into an adorable romance hero. The first 30-40% of this book is slow and I feel like the author just tells us the same stuff over and over. After reading poor reviews for the second book, I decided to wait for this one to come out. I was on an airplane when I started it, and I was laughing so loud I had to keep putting my hand over my mouth so I didn’t disturb the person next to me. This past summer I read my first RL Mathewson book, Playing for Keeps. “They’re going to do it on the front lawn!” Mathewson (Neighbors From Hell #3)įavorite Quote: “Oh my God!” a woman whispered loudly. “American Traitor” is a thriller about the insidious and growing “gray war” between China, the United States, and Taiwan,” Mr. I reached out to Brad Taylor and asked how he would describe “American Traitor?” He served eight years in the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment, also known as “Delta,” where he commanded multiple troops and a squadron in operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other classified locations. Army, retiring as a Special Forces lieutenant colonel. Wolffe’s tone told me the rule might be changing.”īrad Taylor served more than 21 years in the U.S. “Well, we had a few times in the past, but it was always the exception to the rule. We wouldn’t do state-on-state activities like Wolffe was describing. “Not wanting it to turn into an American Gestapo force, he had designed the Oversight Council and then dictated that we would only deal with substate terrorist threats. “Because our unit was illegal from the jump, Kurt Hale - our deceased commander - had developed strict limits to Project Prometheus, understanding the threat the unit could pose,” Logan, the novel’s narrator, explains. Logan asked Wolffe why the Taskforce would care about that, as it sounded like a traditional intelligence community problem. “Hon Kong is going nuts, they’re taking over the South China Sea, they’ve infiltrated every university we have, stealing our technology, and they are locking up the Muslim Uyghur community into concentration camps.” 5/26/2023 0 Comments Plato ion summary sparknotesand served as personal tutor to Alexander the Great, the future king of Macedonia. Aristotle returned to the Macedonian court around the year 338 B.C.E. Here, Aristotle met and married his wife, Pythias, and had a daughter by the same name. Aristotle left the academy around the time Plato died, and he traveled to the island Lesbos to study botany. Aristotle was taught by Plato, who was taught by Socrates before him. When Aristotle was 17 years old, he went to Athens and enrolled in Plato’s Academy, where he lived and studied for nearly 20 years. Both Phaestis and Nicomachus died when Aristotle was an adolescent, and he spent the rest of his childhood under the care of a guardian. Not much is known about Aristotle’s mother, Phaestis however, Aristotle’s father, Nicomachus, was a court physician for the Macedonian King Amyntas II. in Stagira, a village in Central Macedonia in Northern Greece. 5/26/2023 0 Comments The gashlycrumb tinies online“The Tinies” would appeal to imagination which welcomes dark humor and thrives on contact with impactful storytelling. “Like no other alphabet book that we own” was the verdict, with the whole absurdity of its subject matter for an alphabet picture book declared as amusing. But my cheeky 13 year-old teenager, who thinks of his mother’s tastes as utterly uncool, has appreciated the originality of “The Tinies” in an instant. I wouldn’t have read it to a three year-old learning to read. Each youngster is shown in a moment of suffering ranging from all sorts of discomforts (like falling out of a sleigh or having drunk too much gin) to totally dreadful ends (like drowning in a lake, being struck with an axe or perishing from fits). “The Tinies” of Edward Gorey, however, are young children who find themselves in far from secure and comfortable predicaments. We almost always associate this learning with comfortably secure, encouraging settings. “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” defies convention of the alphabet book genre, that of inspiring young children (usually learning to read) to explore letters that make up words that in turn make up stories. “The Bee-Man of Orn” one man’s quest to find his destiny, by Frank Stockton, illustrated by P.J. |